Verse Text
vaiṣṇava-tantre ’pi –
aṣṭādaśa-mahā-doṣai rahitā bhagavat-tanuḥ |
sarvaiśvaryamayī satya-vijṣānānanda-rūpiṇī ||246||
Translation
It is also confirmed in a Vaiṣṇava-tantra: The form of the Lord is without the eighteen great faults, is endowed with all powers and is the very essence (svarūpa) of existence, knowledge and bliss.
Purport (Nectar of Devotion)
In the Viṣṇu-yāmala-tantra there is a statement that because the Personality of Godhead and His expanded bodies are always full of knowledge, bliss and eternity, they are always free from the eighteen kinds of material contaminations—